Restorying Environmental Education

Figurations, Fictions, and Feral Subjectivities
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-84016-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 151 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 226 g

Reihe: Curriculum Studies Worldwide

This book examines a performative environmental educational inquiry through a place-based eco-art project collaboratively undertaken with a class of grade 4-6 students around the lost streams of Vancouver. The resulting work explores the contradictions gathered in relation to the Western educational system and the encounter with “Other” (real and imaginary others), including the shifting and growing “self,” and an attempt to find and foster nourishing alliances for transforming environmental education. Drawing on the work of new materialist theorists Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, and Karen Barad, Adsit-Morris considers the co-constitutive materiality of human corporeality and nonhuman natures and provides useful tools for finding creative theoretical alternatives to the reductionist, representationalist, and dualistic practices of the Western metaphysics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adsit-Morris, Chessa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Gesundheitspädagogik, Umweltpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How to Create Human Humus Instead of Human Hubris2. A Cartographic Mapping Practice: Environmental Education, the Material/Discursive, and New Materialist Praxis3. Bag-lady Storytelling: The Carrier-bag Theory of Fiction as Research Praxis4. Doing: Exploring the Lost Streams of Vancouver Through Eco-Art5. Thinking: A Narrative Inquiry into Possible Figurations and Multiple Modes of Ecological Thought6. How to Keep the Story going for Those Who Come After

Über Autor(innen)

Chessa Adsit-Morris is a curriculum theorist and member of the Center for Creative Ecologies. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.